<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/7/5, Mark Rudholm <<a href="mailto:rudholm@hyperreal.org">rudholm@hyperreal.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What difference does it make?</blockquote><div><br><br>It would give me an indication of the filesize, so I mean: can the file compressed more or not?<br>Now you can't see anything at all: if you have a FLAC file from an unknown source, you can only guess if you can compress it more, because there is no indication of the compression level.
<br>(e.g. if it would say "compression level 5", I would know I can re-encode it using level 8 to make it smaller)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Harry Sack wrote:<br>> Why isn't the compression level added in a metadata block by the flac<br>> encoder itself (just like the encoder version)? In this way all programs<br>> that read the file can see what compression level was used.
<br>><br>> thx<br>><br>> 2007/7/4, Scot Thompson <<a href="mailto:scot.thompson@cox.net">scot.thompson@cox.net</a>>:<br>>><br>>> This has been asked many times. The answer is no. I suggest saving the
<br>>> compression level into a tag for future reference, but that won't help<br>>> you<br>>> with files you get from unknown locations.<br>>><br>>> ------------------------------<br>>> *From:*
<a href="mailto:flac-bounces@xiph.org">flac-bounces@xiph.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:flac-bounces@xiph.org">flac-bounces@xiph.org</a>] *On<br>>> Behalf Of<br>>> *Harry Sack<br>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:14 AM
<br>>> *To:* <a href="mailto:flac@xiph.org">flac@xiph.org</a><br>>> *Subject:* [Flac] FLAC: getting compression level using metaflac<br>>><br>>> Hi FLAC list!<br>>><br>>> I have a question (maybe a strange one) about getting the compression
<br>>> level (0-8) using metaflac.<br>>> So I want to know for a given FLAC file what compression level was<br>>> used to<br>>> compress that file.<br>>> I tried using the --list option but this doesn't give any information
<br>>> about this.<br>>><br>>> Is there a way to get the compression level of a given FLAC file using<br>>> metaflac or another tool?<br>>><br>>> thx<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________
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